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At some point in summer 2013, I more or less lost interest in writing on my Blog, to get me going again I was thinking about what I should do. So I started thinking that I should set myself some goals in amateur radio, so that I could write about them. I came up with the idea that I should have used every band and every mode at least once in my Life as a HAM. I thought about it and refined the idea a bit and came up with these 4 goals:

I will use every Band at least once in RX and TX.

I will use every Mode (that is known in general) at least once in RX and TX.

I will operate with every working Hamsat at least once.

I will own proper Equipment to work on every primary amateur band at any time.

Since doing all this at some point in Life is a bit too uncertain if it will ever be done, I have put myself a restriction of 10 Years from now on. So until 31. Dec. 2023 I will hopefully have a fully green list below. I have now 200 items on my agenda for ham radio.

I guess this is just a different approach to something like IOTA, SOTA or “Worked all Countries”.

Bands

Band
Name

Low
Edge

High
Edge

RX

TX

2200m

135,7 kHz

137,8 kHz

N/A

N/A

630m

472 kHz

479 kHz

N/A

N/A

160m

1810 kHz

2000 kHz

N/A

N/A

80m

3500 kHz

3800 kHz

N/A

N/A

40m

7000 kHz

7200 kHz

N/A

N/A

30m

10,1 MHz

10,15 MHz

N/A

N/A

20m

14 MHz

14,35 MHz

N/A

N/A

17m

18068 kHz

18168 kHz

N/A

N/A

15m

21 MHz

21,45 MHz

N/A

N/A

12m

24,89 MHz

24,99 MHz

N/A

N/A

10m

28 MHz

29,7 MHz

N/A

N/A

6m

50,08 MHz

51 MHz

N/A

N/A

2m

144 MHz

146 MHz

N/A

N/A

70cm

430 MHz

440 MHz

N/A

N/A

23cm

1240 MHz

1300 MHz

N/A

N/A

13cm

2320 MHz

2450 MHz

N/A

N/A

9cm

3400 MHz

3475 MHz

N/A

N/A

6cm

5650 MHz

5850 MHz

N/A

N/A

3cm

10 GHz

10,5 GHz

N/A

N/A

12mm

24 GHz

24,25 GHz

N/A

N/A

6mm

47 GHz

47,2 GHz

N/A

N/A

4mm

76 GHz

81,5 GHz

N/A

N/A

2,5mm

122,25 GHz

123 GHz

N/A

N/A

2mm

134 GHz

141 GHz

N/A

N/A

1mm

241 GHz

250 GHz

N/A

N/A

I was not sure if I should add non-German Bands to this list, like the 60m or 4m Bands. These would need me to go abroad to use them, for now I leave them out, maybe I will get ambitious enough to add them at some point, for now I would really be happy to just fulfill this list.

Especially this list of modes might change over time. Digimodes are invented and forgotten everyday. I still want to try out as many as possible. Also the border between a technical Mode (like FM, AM, CW, SSB) and a practical application (like EME, Meteorscatter, Aurora) are not always clear.

Birds

Des.

Name

Transp.

RX (DL)

TX (UL)

AO-7

Oscar 7

Beacon

N/A

-

AO-7

Oscar 7

Linear

N/A

N/A

UO-11

UoSat-2

Beacon

N/A

-

AO-16

PacSat-1

Beacon

N/A

-

RS-15

RadioSkaf-15

Beacon

N/A

-

IO-26

ITAMSAT

Beacon

N/A

-

FO-29

Fuji-2

Linear

N/A

N/A

RS-30

Yubileiny

Beacon

N/A

-

SO-33

SEDSat

Beacon

N/A

-

NO-44

PCSat

Digipeater

N/A

N/A

SO-50

Saudisat-1C

FM

N/A

N/A

CO-55

Cute-1

Beacon

N/A

-

CO-57

XI-IV

Beacon

N/A

-

RS-22

Mozhayets 4

Beacon

N/A

-

VO-52

VUSat

Beacon

N/A

-

CO-58

XI-V

Beacon

N/A

-

DO-64

Delfi-C3

Linear

N/A

N/A

CO-65

Cute-1.7

Digipeater

N/A

N/A

CO-66

SEEDS II

Beacon

N/A

-

HO-68

XW-1

FM

N/A

N/A

HO-68

XW-1

Linear

N/A

N/A

FO-69

FASTRAC 1

??

N/A

N/A

FO-70

FASTRAC 2

??

N/A

N/A

AO-71

AubieSat-1

Beacon

N/A

-

Mo-72

Masat-1

Beacon

N/A

-

ISS

ARISS

FM

N/A

N/A

ISS

ARISS

Digipeater

N/A

N/A

ISS

ARISS

APRS

N/A

N/A

ISS

ARISS

D-ATV

N/A

-

-

CAPE-1

Beacon

N/A

-

-

COMPASS-1

Beacon

N/A

-

-

KKS-1 KISEKI

Beacon

N/A

-

-

SwissCube

FM / AFSK

N/A

Uplink via web ?!?

-

ITUpSAT1

Beacon

N/A

N/A

-

BeeSat-1

Beacon

N/A

-

-

BeeSat-2

Beacon

N/A

-

-

JUNO

CW

-

Missed

-

PW-Sat-1

Digipeater ?

N/A

N/A

-

TISat

Beacon

N/A

-

Compiling this table has taken me quite some time. It looks as most satellites are just sending their telemetry on a Ham-Band, which is alright but does not really elate me. For me it should be more about communication with someone else and not just listening to data. So I have not listed every cubesat that just does beacon transmissions in the list. Maybe I will fix this at some point, either by adding all the beacon only sats or by throwing all other beacon only sats out. I don’t know. Also my kudos to Mike, dk3wn who has a pretty exhaustive compilation of satellites and details on operation with them. See his page at http://www.dk3wn.info/satellites.shtml

Equipment

Band
Name

Low
Edge

High
Edge

RX

TX

160m

1810 kHz

1850 kHz

N/A

N/A

80m

3500 kHz

3800 kHz

N/A

N/A

40m

7000 kHz

7100 kHz

N/A

N/A

20m

14 MHz

14,35 MHz

N/A

N/A

17m

18068 kHz

18168 kHz

N/A

N/A

15m

21 MHz

21,45 MHz

N/A

N/A

12m

24,89 MHz

24,99 MHz

N/A

N/A

10m

28 MHz

29,7 MHz

N/A

N/A

2m

144 MHz

146 MHz

N/A

N/A

70cm

430 MHz

440 MHz

N/A

N/A

12mm

24 GHz

24,05 GHz

N/A

N/A

6mm

47 GHz

47,2 GHz

N/A

N/A

4mm

75,5 GHz

76 GHz

N/A

N/A

2mm

134 GHz

136 GHz

N/A

N/A

1mm

248 GHz

250 GHz

N/A

N/A

Getting a full set of equipment to operate on shortwave is pretty easy nowadays. You just buy an “All Mode, All Band Transceiver” and are good to go. But all the other Bands, especially the millimeter-bands will be a bigger challenge. Most probably I will need to work my way through from the lower end to the higher adding transverter after transverter.